Describes a game-like writing exercise that uses the principle of "divide and conquer" to teach technical description. (PD)

Presents a variety of art and writing activities designed to evoke a new pedogogical orientation and to enable students to use their imaginations. The activities focus on language de-conditioning, observation, timing, transfer of knowledge, and reproduction. They include recipe models, colors, sensation, and feeling; poetry; and creating artistic…

Notes the prevalance of advertising language and personae in student writing. Includes exercises that evoke the advertising voice, suggesting that using these as a stepping stone to teaching advertising is preferable to a separate advertising unit. (HTH)

Explains how to involve students in a composition unit that requires them to complete writing assignments from various points of view. (DF)

Presents sequential approach to writing instruction that draws on power of rhetoric to help students connect with real world. Exercises focus on country's literacy problem and allow students to work with all kinds of discourse in logical sequence while learning to summarize, to analyze their own and their classmates' styles, and to work with…

Describes a journalism internship program at an Alaskan university that bridges the gap between theory and practice by requiring a series of reports that make students reflect on their media experiences and discover how these experiences relate to concepts studied in coursework within and outside the journalism department. (HTH)

Describes three methods used by researchers to elicit original metaphors and similes: structured tasks using poetry ideas, definitions and models, and supporting the thesis of a paper. (CRH)

The influence of physical fatigue on motor skills learning was examined in a study where subjects were scored on performance of both fatiguing and learning tasks. Results are discussed. (DF)

The normative beliefs of parents, teachers, and friends and the motivation to comply with the beliefs of these significant others were measured to examine societal norms toward exercise as perceived by school children. Results are presented. (Author/DF)

Describes a writing assignment that leads students to see the complexities of cause and effect relationships by having them analyze a complicated court case and decide who is right and who is wrong in the case. (FL)

Describes the results of a rhetoric assignment in which first-year college students were asked to write a paper using "Grammar B," a style that makes use of sentence fragments, convoluted sentences, word repetitions, and odd orthographic devices and eliminates transitions between divisions of material. Concludes that students found the…

Graduate and undergraduate students showed a reduction in anxiety during a 16-week course designed to include information on the causes and effects of stress as well as practical techniques for stress management. A follow-up study showed that the students were still successfully using the stress management techniques a year later. (RM)

Discusses the rationale for integrating writing in beginning literacy instruction, describes several successful writing activities, and includes recommendations for adult literacy educators. (AEA)

Suggests giving literature/composition students a set of declarative statements that enable them to define a thematic statement and then write a focused, fully developed analytical essay. Includes such declarative statements from the novel "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler. (HTH)

Describes using the parallels between developing the persuasive essay and an advertisement to help advertising students become aware of the importance of voice, point of view, and audience. Students complete a written essay modeled after the language and techniques employed by advertisers. (HTH)